Spring 2008
Tuesday, April 29 (2008) - CANCELLED
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
612 Institute for Genomic Biology, Noon
Professor Karen E. Nelson
Investigator, The Institute for Genomic Research
J. Craig Venter Institute
"Metagenomics and Implications for Understanding the Human Microbiome"
Wednesday, March 26 (2008)
The Office of Technology Management
350B Edward R. Madigan Lab, Noon
Alice O. Martin, PhD, JD
Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Chicago
"Biotech Patenting Strategies: Understanding New Rules & Trends"
Registration is Required, Complimentary Lunch will be Provided
RSVP to nnair@uiuc.edu by March 21
Tuesday, March 25 (2008)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Claire Fraser-Liggett
Director, Institute of Genome Sciences
University of Maryland School of Medicine
"The Human Microbiome Project: Understanding our Microbial Selves"
Tuesday, March 4 (2008)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
612 Institute for Genomic Biology, Noon
Richard Flavell, FRS, CBE
Chief Scientific Officer
CERES, Thousand Oaks, CA
"Making Cellulosic Biofuel Feedstocks a Commercial Reality"
Tuesday, February 5 (2008)
IGB Seminar
IGB Conference Center, Noon
Professor Rashid Bashir
Director, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory
University of Illinois
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering
"BioMEMS and BioNanotechnology: Interfacing Biology and Silicon at the Mirco and Nano Scale"
Tuesday, January 29 (2008)
IGB Seminar
IGB Conference Center, Noon
Professor Charles G. Kurland
Uppsala University
Department of Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Centre
University of Lund
Department of Microbiology
"The Origins of Modern Proteomes"
Fall 2007
Tuesday, November 27 (2007)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Trudy F.C. Mackay
William Neal Reynolds Professor of Genetics
North Carolina State University
Department of Genetics
"The Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits: Lessons from Drosophila"
Tuesday, November 13 (2007)
IGB Seminar
607 IGB (Tiered Classroom), Noon
Professor Melinda D. Smith
Yale University
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
"Ecological Implications of Climate Change: From Genes to Ecosystems"
Friday, November 2 (2007)
ARCHAEA Evolution Public Lecture
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 7:30 p.m.
Professor Norman R. Pace
University of Colorado, Boulder
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
"The Emerging View of Life's Diversity and Evolution: Into the Natural Microbial World"
Tuesday, October 23 (2007)
IGB Seminar
IGB Conference Center, Noon
Professor William M. Gelbart
Harvard University
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
"Comparative Genomic Analysis: Lessons from the Dozen Flies"
Tuesday, October 2 (2007)
IGB Seminar
IGB Conference Center, Noon
Professor Barry M. Gumbiner
Professor and Chair
University of Virginia, School of Medicine
Department of Cell Biology
"Cadherins and Tissue Morphogenesis"
Monday, September 10 (2007)
Center for Advanced Study
612/614 Institute for Genomic Biology Gatehouse, 4:00 p.m.
Philip Yeo
Special Advisor for Economic Development (Prime Minister's Office, Singapore)
Senior Advisor for Science and Technology (Ministry of Trade & Industry)
Chairman of the Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board (SPRING)
"Building a Knowledge-Based Economy Pyramid"
Summer 2007
Friday, July 20 (2007)
Special Seminar
Institute for Genomic Biology Conference Center, Noon
Professor Tetsuo Kunieda
Okayama University, Japan
Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology
"Identification of Genes Responsible for Hereditary Diseases of Japanese Beef Cattle"
Monday, July 16 (2007)
Special Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Lisa Stubbs, PhD
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Genome Biology Group, CMLS
"Gene Regulation Across the Evolutionary Spectrum: Identifying cis and trans Determinants of Deeply Conserved and Species-Specific Traits"
Poster (PDF)
Thursday, July 12 (2007)
Special Seminar
612 Instiute for Genomic Biology, 4:00 pm
Alex Webb, PhD
University Senior Lecturer
University of Cambridge, Department of Plant Sciences
"Rhythmic regulation of calcium signalling networks"
Spring 2007
Monday, May 21 and Tuesday, May 22 (2007)
Third Annual BeeSpace Workshop
IGB Conference Center and Bevier Hall Auditorium
Registration Required
Tuesday, April 24 (2007)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Terry C. Hazen
Senior Staff Scientist and Department Head
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Ecology Department
"Systems Biology (Integration of the Omics, Bioinformatics, and Biogeochemistry): The New Frontier for Environmental Biotechnology"
Monday, April 16 (2007)
MCB and IGB Distinguished Lecturer
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Hung-wen Liu
Medicinal Chemistry, Chemistry, and Biochemistry
University of Texas, Austin
"Mechanistic Studies of Enzyme Catalysis"
Tuesday, April 10 (2007)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Leroy Hood
Founder and Director
Institute for Systems Biology
Seattle, WA
"Systems Biology and Systems Medicine"
Thursday, March 29 (2007)
IGB Grand Opening Ceremony (by invitation only)
IGB Conference Center, 3 pm
Tuesday, March 6 (2007)
IGB Seminar
IGB Conference Center, Noon
Professor Marianna Bei
Assistant Professor and Lab Director
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
"A Systems Biology Approach for Understanding Ectodermal Organ Formation"
Tuesday, February 27 (2007)
IGB Seminar
IGB Conference Center, Noon
Professor Rodney R. Dietert
Microbiology and Immunology
Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine
"Developmental Immune Insult and Later Life Disease"
Professor Dietert's Seminar Video (DivX Player needed, download here)
Saturday, February 24 and Sunday, February 25 (2007)
IGB Fellows Symposium on The Future of Biology
IGB Conference Center and Bevier Hall Auditorium
Registration Required
Tuesday, January 23 (2007)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Jeffrey I. Gordon
Director, Center for Genome Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine
"Dining in with a Few Trillion Friends: Exploring the Human Gut Microbiome"
Professor Gordon's Seminar Video (DivX Player needed, download here)
Fall 2006
Tuesday, December 5 (2006)
IGB Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Stephen C. Ekker
Director and Associate Professor
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Transposon Research
University of Minnesota, Medical School
"Molecular Engineering the Zebrafish for the 21st Century Biologist"
Tuesday, November 28 (2006)
IGB Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Thomas G.H. Diekwisch
Professor and Head, Department of Oral Biology
University of Illinois, Chicago, College of Dentistry
"The Evo-Devo of Tissue Regeneration - The Research Program of the Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics"
Tuesday, November 14 (2006)
IGB Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Xianghong Jasmine Zhou
Molecular and Computational Biology
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
"Analysis of Functions, Networks, and Phenotypes by Integrating Cross-Platform Microarray Data"
Tuesday, October 24 (2006)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Richard A. Dixon
Director, Plant Biology Division
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
"Functional and Structural Genomics for Gene Discovery and Metabolic Engineering in the Phenylpropanoid Pathway"
Professor Dixon's Seminar Video (DivX Player needed, download here)
Tuesday, September 19 (2006)
Special Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor William J. Murphy
Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Texas A&M University
"Phylogenomic Applications in the Study of Mammalian Evolution"
Poster (PDF)
Spring 2006
Tuesday, April 25 (2006)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon and 7:30 pm
Professor Howard J. Jacob
Director, Human and Molecular Genetics Center
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"Systems Biology and Building Better Models for Drug Development"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Poster (PDF)
Professor Jacob's Seminar Video (DivX Player Needed, download here)
and
"Individualized Medicine, Fact or Fiction?"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, 7:30 pm
Poster (PDF)
Professor Jacob's Seminar Video (DivX Player needed, download here)
Tuesday, April 4 (2006)
Special Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Douglas F. Antczak
James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health
Cornell University
"Split Immunological Tolerance to Trophoblast"
Co-sponsored by College of Veterinary Medicine
Tuesday, March 14 (2006)
Precision Proteomics Theme Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Andrew S. Belmont
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Large-Scale Chromatin Structure and Dynamics - Functional Genomics as a Path Towards Molecular Dissection of Cytological Events"
Tuesday, March 7 (2006)
Biocomplexity Theme Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Patrick M. O'Donoghue
Department of Chemistry
Fellow, Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Probing the Roots of the Tree of Life: Origins and Evolutionary History of Cysteine Coding Genes"
Tuesday, February 21 (2006)
Genomics of Neural and Behavioral Plasticity Theme Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor David F. Clayton
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and Neuroscience Program
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Neurogenomics of Neural Plasticity: The Birds, the Bees, and Supercomputers"
Tuesday, February 14 (2006)
Special Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Jayesh Mehta, MD
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation
"Adult Stem Cells: Beyond Cancer"
Co-sponsored by Medicine/Med Scholars & Carle
Tuesday, February 7 (2006)
Mining Microbial Genomes for Novel Antibiotics Theme Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor William W. Metcalf
Department of Microbiology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Discovery, Design and Development of Phosphonic Acid Antibiotics"
Fall 2005
Tuesday, December 6 (2005)
Molecular Bioengineering of Biomass Conversion Theme Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Bryan A. White
Department of Animal Sciences
University of Illnois, Urbana-Champaign
"Genomics and Metagenomics of Cellulosomes from Anaerobic Microbes: Identification of Candidate Glycosyl Hydrolase Components for Enhanced Fiber Degradation"
Tuesday, November 29 (2005)
Special Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Michael R. Ladisch
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Purdue University
"Plant Cell Structure and the Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Cellulose"
Tuesday, November 15 (2005)
Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering Theme Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Sheng Zhong
Department of Bioengineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Identification of Transcriptional Enhancers in Embryonic Stem Cells"
Tuesday, November 8 (2005)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Stanley J. Watson
Director, Mental Health Research Institute
University of Michigan
"The Pritzker Consortium: Adventures in Gene Expression"
Professor Watson's Seminar Video (DivX Player needed, download here)
Tuesday, November 1 (2005)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Martin Polz
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Microbial Diversity in the Ocean: Clones, Populations and Species"
Professor Polz's Seminar Video (DivX Player needed, download here)
Monday, October 17 (2005)
"CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series"
Foellinger Auditorium, 7:30 PM
Professor James A. Thomson
Department of Anatomy
University of Wisconsin, Madison Medical School
Chief Pathologist, Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center
"Embryonic Stem Cell Research: A Scientific Overview"
Friday, October 14 (2005)
Special Seminar
Monsanto Room, ACES Library, Noon
Professor Alexander G. Bassuk
Department of Pediatrics and Neurology
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
"The Genetics of Human Neural Tube Defects"
Tuesday, October 11 (2005)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Bernhard O. Palsson
Departments of Bioengineering and Medicine
University of California, San Diego
"New Dimensions in Genome Annotation"
Professor Palsson's Seminar Video (DivX Player needed, download here)
Tuesday, September 27 (2005)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Shankar Subramaniam
Departments of Bioengineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego
"Systems Biology - From Transcriptome to Phenotypes in Mammalian Biology"
Professor Subramaniam's Seminar Video (DivX Player needed, download here)
Tuesday, September 20 (2005)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor James H. Eberwine
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
"Molecular Biology of the Neuronal Dendrite: More and More Surprises"
Professor Eberwine's Seminar Video (DivX Player needed, download here)
Co-sponsored by Neuroscience Program
Tuesday, September 13 (2005)
Biocomplexity Theme Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Bruce W. Fouke
Department of Geology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Yellowstone Biocomplexity: MIcrobe-Water-Mineral Dynamics at Mammoth Hot Springs"
Tuesday, September 6 (2005)
Special Seminar
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor David M. Soderlund
Departments of Entomology and Food Science and Technology
Cornell University
"Insect Molecular Neurobiology: Applications for Insecticide Discovery"
Co-sponsored by Entomology and Neuroscience Program
Spring 2005
Tuesday, April 19 (2005)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Giulio Tononi
Department of Psychiatry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis"
Professor Tononi's Seminar Video (DivX Player needed, download here)
Tuesday, April 12 (2005)
"IGB Special Seminar"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Lee Rybeck Lynd
Department of Engineering
Thayer School of Engineering
Dartmouth College
"The Role of Biomass in America's Energy Future"
Tuesday, March 29 (2005)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Thomas Mitchell-Olds
Department of Genetics and Evolution
Max-Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology
"Functional Evolutionary Genomics of Ecologically Important Variation"
Tuesday, February 15 (2005)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Sir David Hopwood
Department of Molecular Microbiology
John Innes Centre
"Using Streptomyces Genes to Make New Antibiotics"
Fall 2004
Tuesday, October 26 (2004)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Jeffrey Skolnick
Director, University at Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics
"Prediction of Protein Structure, Function and Druggability on a Genomic Scale"
Tuesday, September 24 (2004)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
(Co-Sponsor with Biochemistry)
Professor Shelly Copley
MCD Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder
"A Mechanism for the Association of Amino Acids with their Codons and the Origin of the Genetic Code"
Tuesday, September 21 (2004)
"Pioneers in Genomic Biology Lecture Series"
B102 CLSL Auditorium, Noon
Professor Edward M. (Eddy) Rubin
Director, U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI)
Director, Genomics Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL)
"Comparative Genomics at the Extremes"
